Tom Spencer

JUNE 8, 2019

If you’re applying to a consulting firm, be ready to get acquainted with case interviews. Almost all consulting firms include the case interview as part of their recruitment process. Even non-consulting firms are utilizing case interviews as part of their process so you don’t want to be blindsided.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with another blog contributor to the SpencerTom community, Jason Oh, to share our experiences about the consulting recruiting process. Afterwards, my curiosity grew and I took the initiative to participate in other case competitions and business plan competitions.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 30, 2008

The “ultimate” interview guide – complete with fit/behavioral questions, sizing/quantitative questions, and brain-teasers. Sample case studies that are as challenging (if not more so) as the toughest ones you’ll encounter at any McKinsey/Bain/BCG interview. Thanks for your readership!

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The prize for best answer was a FREE Consulting Case Bank and The Consulting Bible 3rd edition – a HUGE giveaway – so we weren’t surprised when we heard from so many of you. As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

Booz & Company Interview and Culture. So you have a Booz & Company interview coming up, and you want to be the best candidate they see? He began by helping firms recruit competent executives, acquire new customers, and establish conducive office space. We want you to nail it. An ability to thrive in a team environment.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 27, 2008

Management Consulting versus Investment Banking. Top 10 Interview Tips. Overview of the Management Consulting Recruiting Process. I’ve been helping friends/colleagues looking to enter management consulting for years with their resumes, cover letters, interviews, and questions. Top 10 Resume Tips.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Interviewing with NERA Economic Consulting? Finance: Bankruptcy, Consumer Protection in Financial Services, Financial Institutions and Banking, Financial Risk Management. . They post available internships during the winter months on Marsh & McLennan’s recruiting website. . NERA ECONOMIC CONSULTING.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 9, 2014

THE ADVISORY BOARD COMPANY INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Interviewing at The Advisory Board Company is relatively straightforward, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. The interview process can take any time between 5 days and 2-3 months, although the average process takes 2-3 weeks. Target Schools.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

You received an interview with a consulting firm! Management consulting interviews generally have two types of assessments, behavioral and casing. Behavioral interview questions help shed significant light on you as a candidate. I have been fortunate to have coached many peers through application and interview processes.

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Management Consulted

MAY 28, 2017

What makes Bulger Partners even more unique among consulting firms is the fact that the firm houses Strategy Consulting and Investment Banking arms under the same roof, and even has a small PE fund. Some members of the Advisory Board include: Sandy Robertson – Pioneered the creation of West Coast technology banking as an industry.

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Management Consulted

MAY 28, 2017

What makes Bulger Partners even more unique among consulting firms is the fact that the firm houses Strategy Consulting and Investment Banking arms under the same roof, and even has a small PE fund. Some members of the Advisory Board include: Sandy Robertson – Pioneered the creation of West Coast technology banking as an industry.

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Management Consulted

MAY 28, 2017

What makes Bulger Partners even more unique among consulting firms is the fact that the firm houses Strategy Consulting and Investment Banking arms under the same roof, and even has a small PE fund. Some members of the Advisory Board include: Sandy Robertson – Pioneered the creation of West Coast technology banking as an industry.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

October was the peak of full-time recruiting, and it shows! You’ve bombarded us with insightful questions about resumes, interviews, applications, and how to pick up the pieces and consider alternatives to consulting when you don’t make the cut. Q: I’m interviewing with BCG and McKinsey. be a better move? .

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 4, 2013

This is a transcribed phone interview between Rachel (name changed) and Jenny Rae – enjoy her insights about failing the first time around but coming back for consulting success and landing an offer with McKinsey in her senior year. —— Rachel, how are you? So I guess that’s how I started with consulting. Great, awesome.

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CaseInterview.com

AUGUST 21, 2019

In her success story she shares some case interview preparation tips and I am also including my response because I find this student’s background slightly unusual for management consulting and wanted to point out that even those with non-typical career and education backgrounds can succeed in management consulting.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING . Interviews at Altman Vilandrie are held over 2 rounds. Round 0 – A phone interview if you’re an employee referral. This will be a screening interview with HR. Round 2 – This interview will take place in one of AV’s offices and is pretty intense.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

And so in PPE, were you interested in business in general, before everything happened with Lehman Brothers did you think you are probably going to stick with the investment banking industry? Peter: When I was at Warwick, it was a massive feeder school into investment banking, and finance, but slightly less into consulting.

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MAY 9, 2019

Management Consulting Networking Success Story: I just want to drop you one additional thank you e-mail, as I heavily relied on your preparation sources throughout my interviewing journey (and the corresponding case interview preparation). I interviewed last autumn for a post-MBA/PhD position at the top firms in Germany.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 31, 2020

To secure a final round interview at Bain, you would have to be in the top 3% of applicants for that office. No one enjoys being turned down, especially in the case of a consulting role where a lot of preparation is required. The key thing to do after a rejection is to reflect on the interview process and ask for feedback.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 21, 2019

Sometimes, when struggling through yet another case interview practice , candidates might wonder: "Why consulting again?" Indeed, many other job opportunities have straightforward interviewing and hiring processes that don't require hours of practice and coaching. Private equity firms also enjoy recruiting former consultants.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

In case you were wondering, the company’s current trademarked slogan, “We Didn’t Invent the Chicken, Just the Chicken Sandwich,” does indeed refer to their flagship menu-item, the Chick-Fil-A chicken sandwich. Interview Tips & Tricks. For tips and tricks to succeeded in any interview setting click here.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

By far, the most valuable thing (for me) was the insight into the mindset of consultants and interviewers, which is what your emails provided. It affords a real sense of perspective for a candidate like me, so when I walked into the interview, there was nothing intimidating about the guy or girl in front of me. based resources.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 29, 2015

Because of this, we sat down with consulting veteran Lisa Bright (who is now part of the MC interview coaching team!) I was going down the route of finance, asset management, investment banking, or something like that. And how was the actual recruitment process for you? I had 2 interviews in Chicago back-to-back.

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MAY 9, 2019

I wanted to send you a quick note on how I have been able to secure a McKinsey interview , despite not knowing anyone in consultancy. Whilst writing my thesis on [ A topic related to economics in Islamic Countries ], I desperately sought the "World Islamic Banking Competitiveness Report", co-authored with McKinsey & Co.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

As I started recruiting for jobs, I discovered there was a hierarchy amongst professions (medical school, law school, investment banking, and consulting were "good"; consumer packaged goods and industrial companies were "bad") and a hierarchy amongst firms within an industry (McKinsey, BCG and Bain were "good"; other firms, less so).

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 31, 2019

I probably put in over 100 hours preparing , and only about 80 of those were for the case, I believe those additional 20 hours of prep for the experience portions helped put me over the top when competing with other candidates from more target schools. Basically, to get interviews, network, network and then network some more.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 28, 2016

From the very beginning, Booz Allen Hamilton has been involved in some very high profile cases. Candidates will be interviewed on campus or over the phone. Karen Fawcett – Director – Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia. Patrick Gorman – Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer – Bank of America.

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MARCH 10, 2019

Facing rejection from consulting firms is an emotional topic especially with the time and effort candidates put in preparing for the case interview. I applied at the top consulting firms , and was rejected from MBB (I was not even offered interviews with them). In these cases, it means you did not do well on the case.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This article was inspired by a recent conversation with an IT prodigy who specializes in building virtual games used for recruitment purposes. Online assessments, aptitude tests, and gamified problem-solving tasks have become ubiquitous in the recruitment processes of top companies, with consulting firms being some of the earliest adopters.

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MAY 21, 2015

Candidates will be interviewed on campus or by phone. Karen Fawcett – Director – Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia. Patrick Gorman – Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer – Bank of America. It must be a case of not missing what you never had. Exit Opportunities.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

BUCK CONSULTANTS INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. After Buck receives your resume, successful applicants are shortlisted and a time is set up for a phone interview. Next, a couple of weeks later, you will have a 45-minute phone interview, and right after that an email is sent out inviting the candidate to the office for an interview.

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JUNE 25, 2019

Some thoughts/observations on the BCG Internship interview process below, which might be of interest to you (although I imagine you get a lot of these!). I think the key thing is that as soon as the interviewer stops, you (the candidate) need to continue onwards with the case unless they pull you another way. I had an L.E.K.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Question: I am a loyal subscriber of your emails and a big fan who also benefited a lot from your case interview materials. However, the interview experiences have solidified my determination to become a consultant. You mentioned in your emails that MBA and brand employers are the key factors that get us to the interview.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Dropping these terms in interviews can be good, but only as a Master’s student, and only when appropriately practical. Her biggest hangup in case interviews was “de-jargonizing” her language and really understanding the fundamentals of business which an Econ degree had not taught her.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

I first came across your materials [ last year ] as I was about to undergo undergraduate internship recruiting at [ U.S. While that has been a great experience, I ultimately found my greatest training and instruction in how to prepare for case interviews from your website and materials. University ].

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JULY 18, 2019

Consultants here tend to serve insurance, investment banking, retail banking, government agencies, payment processors, and private equity fund clients. Oliver Wyman recruits globally primarily from 100 of the most selective schools across five continents.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

When I first started recruiting for consulting jobs, an interviewer at Bain shared a story (arguably a legend at this point) about how Bain (or it might have been McKinsey) was asked to advise Motorola on whether or not they should enter the mobile phone market. In my client's case, none of that was available. I’m not sure." "How

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